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Tropical Wolf
@tropicalwolf.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, activist, 19, 🏳️‍🌈🇯🇲
Secular Buddhist
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Tropical Wolf @tropicalwolf.bsky.social · Nov 8
I wrote a short article about what's happening is Sudan. Please read it and talk about what's happening there.
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#Sudan #UAE #RSF #News #Africa #Sudanese #SupanesesPeople #CivilWar #War #Violence #SudanGenocide #SudaneseGenocide #Report #NewsReport #Journalism
Horror In Sudan | Article
Pile of corpses can be seen form space
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Horrible news from a while ago.
#Men #WomensSafety #Safety #Womens #WomensHealthAccess #Telegram #Violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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A huge congratulations to @katiephang.bsky.social on reaching 500,000 YouTube subscribers — and in record time. This is a historic milestone for independent media.

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Welcome to the official Katie Phang YouTube Channel, powered by the MeidasTouch Network — your new destination for fearless, fact-based reporting that cuts through the spin and gets to the truth. Host...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Noob ahh mood board.
#MoodBoard #Art #MyArt #Artist #YoungArtist #YoungCreative #DigitalArt #DigitalArtist #NewArtist #MoodBoards #Canva
January 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Remember everyone who is out there defending cold-blooded murder.

They’ve shown you exactly who they are.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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#Article #Abortion #AbortionRights #WomensHealthAccess #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #AbortionAdvocacy #Feminist #IndependentWriting #IndependentAuthor #FeministWriting #WomensHealth #WomensHealthcare
Is Abortion Healthcare? Let's See what the Experts Say: Part 1 [Article version] | Women's Health Access
Let’s see what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about abortion with a series of quotes.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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They should let him do press conferences everyday like our convicted felon president did during his trial.
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland:

"Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."
6 January 2026 Joint Statement on Greenland Statement by President Macron of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland. Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark - including Greenland - is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them. The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951. Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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#Instagram is censoring me.
#Censorship #Meta #Threads #Abortion #WomensHealthAccess #Feminism #Fascism #Resist #Resistance
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Meta can suck 🖕🏾.
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#Censorship #Meta #RTC #WomensHealthAccess #Venezuela #Trinidadians #News #DonaldTrump #MAGA #War
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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A new era begins for The Big Apple!
Screenshot of an Associated Press post on X announcing that Zohran Mamdani has become mayor of New York City. The post notes he was sworn in at a historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan and identifies him as the first Muslim mayor of the city. The accompanying photo shows Mamdani standing at a podium with two officials, holding a Quran, beneath an arched subway entrance labeled “City Hall,” with tiled walls and steps behind them.
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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巨人族の花嫁第59話が以下のサイトにて先行配信されました。
マルトゥががんばる回です、よろしくお願いします

DMM
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comic festa
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#BLスクリーモ　 #巨人族の花嫁
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I’ll be speaking at this event on the theme “Tracing the histories of nonbinary lives and preserving them for the future.”
I’ll talk about the histories and archiving of people living nonbinary genders in Japan, drawing on my own experiences in nonbinary communities. Looking forward to it!
kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social · Nov 2
I’ll be speaking at the event “Rethinking the Gender Binary from X-jenda and Nonbinary Perspectives” on Sunday, December 21!
I’ll present my research on the history of nonbinary activisms in Japan.
kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social · Nov 2
12/21(日)15時〜のイベント、「Xジェンダーやノンバイナリーの視点から、男女二元制を考える」に登壇し、日本の非二元的な性をめぐる活動史について研究発表します！
排除的な言説も目立つなか大事な機会をいただき、初めてご一緒するゲストの方も多く、楽しみにしています。ご関心ある方はぜひ。

申し込みは以下のフォームからお願いします。
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December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I’ll be giving a talk on January 27 at 2:30 PM at the Takarazuka City Community Center Hall, titled “Nonbinary and Transgender Realities: Respecting Gender Diversity.”
I hope this can be a space to resist nonbinary exclusion and to learn the knowledge we all need.
I’d be glad if you could join us!
kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social · Dec 12
1月27日14時30分〜宝塚市中央公民館ホールで、「ノンバイナリー、トランスジェンダーのリアル〜多様な性のあり方を尊重する〜」という題で講演します！
ノンバイナリー排除に抗い、必要な知識を学ぶ場にできれば。予約不要・無料・一時保育要事前申込です。よろしければぜひ。
www.city.takarazuka.hyogo.jp/1060681/1060...
令和7年度多様な性を考えるセクシュアルマイノリティ講演会｜宝塚市公式ホームページ
宝塚市公式ホームページ
www.city.takarazuka.hyogo.jp
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Brutal truth about foreigners in Japan

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#japan
In the English-speaking community, “don’t teach English for too long in Japan” is a common piece of wisdom. On Reddit, you can find many horror stories about foreigners making the mistake of teaching English for too long in Japan. Here is my take on the issue. The problem isn’t English-teaching per se. The real problem is that English-teaching is often (but not always!!) a type of irregular employment in Japan, and people who are irregularly employed are an “untouchable” underclass in Japan. Japanese people who are irregularly employed are also treated badly by society and their employers. Japan systematically punishes the irregularly employed underclass. When foreigners sign up for jobs like English-teaching (or any other sort of irregular employment common among those who know limited Japanese), they aren’t often aware that they will be part of an oppressed underclass in Japan. The formal Japanese term for irregular employment is 非正規雇用, which refers to workers who don’t have the formal status of seishain 正社員 (“regular employee”). Irregular employment doesn’t necessarily mean you work less; many irregular employees (like English teachers) work 40 hours a week or more. Irregular employment means that your job isn’t seen as a real career. This means that your salary doesn’t increase with your experience, and you will be paid the same junior-level salary even if you have decades of experience. Does that sound like English-teaching? That’s because English-teaching is a form of irregular employment, and irregular employment is designed to hold people down like this. Irregular employment is also meant to have fewer or non-existent benefits and strongly associated with abusive working conditions. Basically, all the common problems people associate with English-teaching are actually just common problems with irregular employment. While foreign workers overwhelmingly get stuck in irregular employment due to their limited Japanese abilities, irregular employment is a huge social problem for Japanese people as well. Japanese people who are stuck in irregular employment include single mothers, the lowly educated, the disabled, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, etc. These are marginalized people who don’t fit the typical mold of “proper citizens” and suffer from great discrimination. If you think I’m kidding when I say the irregularly employed are “untouchable”, check out the following data that shows irregularly employed men have significantly lower marriage rates than regularly employed men. Being irregularly employed strongly affects your romantic life. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/artic... Also check out this marriage agency’s article on how difficult it is to get married when you’re irregularly employed. According to the article, many families won’t let their children marry the irregularly employed. https://duo-bridal.com/konkatu-suppor... Other difficulties facing the irregularly employed include being considered undesirable renters and being rejected by landlords; this means that they aren’t allowed to live in the same space as “proper citizens”. They also have problems getting loans and mortgages. The irregularly employed often don’t have enough pension to retire, and they might need to work grueling manual labor jobs against their will in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. They have significant difficulties navigating important life events like dating, marriage, having kids, renting, buying a house, and retirement. “Normal” life stage things that “regular society” takes for granted are beyond their reach. They really are a underclass who struggles to achieve a “normal” life. What’s even worse is that this underclass status is often inherited. Poor and lowly educated parents being stuck in irregular employment often pass the status to their children because they can’t offer the children a stable family and educational environment. As someone who is fluent in Japanese and assimilated into Japanese culture, I can tell you that there is absolutely a deep social stigma attached to irregular employment. Of course, I’m not talking about the rare exception of the rich person who is irregularly employed, such as a rich housewife who works 10 hours a week for fun or a successful independent former-McKinsey consultant. I’m talking about people stuck in lowly paid jobs that aren’t considered real careers, like cashiers and janitors. Though Japanese society isn’t as unequal as many other countries like China and Saudi Arabia, the distinction between “regular society” and the irregularly employed underclass is pretty obvious and can be felt in your everyday life and how people treat you. As a foreigner, it might be difficult to tell which part of your experience comes from the class factor and which part comes from being a foreigner. Unfortunately, foreigners who know limited Japanese are overwhelmingly likely to be stuck in irregular employment. In the English-speaking community, the “foreigner experience” strongly overlaps with the “irregularly employed experience”. When you read the horror stories of foreigners in Japan, it’s often hard to tell if the horrible experience comes from being a foreigner or being part of the irregularly employed underclass. I actually think a lot of the bad foreigner experience is actually part of the underclass experience. As a foreigner who is capable of working regular Japanese jobs and not connected to the underclass, my experience of Japan is actually very positive. I try my best to help other foreigners distinguish the “foreigner experience” from the “irregularly employed experience” by explaining my perceptions of Japan from outside that underclass. I also try my best to help foreigners get out of that underclass. Please connect with me on Patreon! Important clarification: in rural areas, irregular employment is much less of a problem because rural folks are usually irregularly employed and living is cheap. (Farmers aren’t seishain…) This might explain why English teachers in more rural areas often have a better experience. However, irregularly employed rural folks suffer from discrimination if they ever move to the cities. They are still a underclass compared to city folks who have “proper” jobs. They don’t have the same educational and economic opportunities as city folks. P.S. My Patreon has all my writings AND many more videos than my YouTube channel! You can join for free! https://www.patreon.com/JapanMediaReview
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Check your refrigerator:

Contaminated shredded cheese sold in multiple states, including California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Pennsylvania.
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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We’re hosting an event at Kwansei Gakuin University on December 2: “Media Literacy to Resist Transphobia and Disinformation.”
We’ll be joined by two representatives from T-Net!
The event will be in person only, free of charge, and no registration is required — all are welcome to join!
Kwansei Gakuin University Human Rights Education Research Office – Designated Research “SOGIE and Human Rights” 2nd Public Research Meeting: “Media Literacy to Resist Transphobia and Disinformation” Date & Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 15:10–16:50 Audience: General public, students, faculty, and staff Venue: Kwansei Gakuin University, Central Auditorium Sign language interpretation available. If you plan to attend in a wheelchair, please contact us in advance for seating assistance. Contact: Human Rights Education Research Office Overview: In recent years, topics related to transgender people have frequently appeared on social media, video platforms, and in the news. However, many of these include misinformation, stereotypes, or even content intended to incite discrimination. How can we avoid being misled and access accurate information? We will welcome two representatives from T-Net, a network sharing reliable information about transgender issues, to discuss media literacy as a tool to resist disinformation and transphobia. Speakers: • Aki Nomiya – Active since 1998 as a core member of transgender self-help and support groups. Served as an organizer of the Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Parade and as a board member of Tokyo Pride. Currently teaches part-time university courses on gender and sexuality. • Kanata Kimoto – YouTuber and video creator. Runs the channel Kanataimu. A transgender man who shares stories on LGBTQ+ topics, life with his deaf parents, and everyday moments “to inspire someone, somehow.” About T-Net: T-Net is a volunteer network launched in August 2024 by transgender individuals and allies committed to sharing accurate and inclusive information about transgender issues.
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Also, in his last term, Trump mused about shooting protestors in the legs. The man is a convicted felon who issued illegal orders regularly to his top company officers.
A tweet from Brian Allen saying David Frum pointed out that calling the Pentagon the “Department of War” is illegal because Congress named it the Department of Defense. He says Trump aides’ made-up titles show willingness to issue illegal orders. The image below shows CNN’s “The Source” with host Kaitlan Collins interviewing David Frum.
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Meiselas: If Trump was just some crappy, scummy billionaire who lived in Florida, do you think I'd give a crap? My issue is this freaking loser, this con artist, this grifter, this scammer has brought his life of scamming, bankrupting and destroying to the American people, who are now suffering.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The Trump admin keeps making things worse as they try to lie their way out of the crisis around the so-called Ukraine “peace plan.” We break it all down, and dissect all the weekend’s news, in today’s bulletin. We’ve made this one 100% paywall free: www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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LESS THAN A WEEK left to enter to win this awesome prize pack. All you have to do is sign up to be a Patreon member at the $5/month level or higher - that's just a little over a dollar per week to make a HUGE difference in the lives of our residents! patreon.com/Merrymac?utm...
merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · Nov 12
We are so excited to announce our first Patreon raffle! We have a huge pile of merch that you can have a chance to win just by signing up for our Patreon blog at the $5/month level or higher: patreon.com/Merrymac?utm...
Photo of a bunch of Merrymac merchandise arranged for viewing. There is a sweatshirt, t shirt, mug, beanie hat, tote bag, book entitled piglet’s big day, a fridge magnet, and many stickers.
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If you have questions about working in Japan, I can give you 1-on-1 advice and help you plan out a job-searching strategy in Japan according to your Japanese level and resume. Please connect with me on Patreon!

Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/JapanMedia...

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(Podcast)Foreigners Working in Japan Beyond English-Teaching: Japanese Level Needed, Career Advice
YouTube video by Japan Media Review
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November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Workshop and talk event on Nov 29 in Tokyo! All are welcome to join!
11月29日に、コミュニティと安全な場所作りについてのワークショップとトークイベントを東京で開催します！以下の内容は、英語となっていますが、当日は日本語の対応もします。
Come join us for a discussion and workshop about fostering community and safe spaces, featuring a talk session with Black Bird's very own Kelly!
Poster HOW TO FOSTER COMMUNITY AND SAFE SPACE And yes - you can do it too! A Rainbow Panda community workshop and talk event with guest Kelly from Black Bird! Join us for a talk and workshop about what we can do to foster the communities and spaces we need and desire! WHEN: NOV 29 (SATURDAY), 13:00-16:00 WHERE: BLACK BIRD EATERY All welcome! (1 DRINK + DONATION) come join us for a discussion and workshop about fostering community and safe spaces, featuring a talk session with Black Bird's very own Kelly! Together, we'll think about what makes a safe space, how we can work on creating one, and think about concrete action that we can take to create such spaces for our community. We'll focus the discussion on queer and trans communities, but you're welcome to think about other types of community that you'd like to foster as well. ABOUT KELLY Kelly Williams is a long-term Tokyo resident, Non-binary community organizer, writer, musician, and co-owner of Black Bird Eatery. With 25 years leading communications technology, consulting, and event operations for enterprise-level clients across Asia Pacific, Kelly also built Monolith Asia's first inclusion policies as its first openly Queer senior manager. Beyond corporate work, Kelly has spent over 30 years creating events and building communities across music, arts, subcultures, and LGBTQIA+ spaces.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM